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This is a book about how judges in American courts decide cases, that is, problems brought before them for resolution.
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plain meaning rule, judicial abstention, prospective overruling, search for intent, mechanical jurisprudence, unified opinion, precedent cannot, legislative inaction, precedential effect, summary disposition, stare decisis, statutory interpretation, private remedy
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Supreme Court, United States, New York, Justice Holmes, Court of Appeals, Justice Frankfurter, Justice Stevens, Golden Rule, Justice Douglas, Justice Jackson, Karl Llewellyn, Sherman Act, Joint Opinion, Justice Black, Justice Scalia, House of Lords, Justice Harlan, Justice Powell, Uniform Commercial Code, Chief Justice Marshall, Civil War, Fourteenth Amendment, The Federalist Papers, Board of Educ, Eleventh Amendment
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